Purpose - This paper aims to examine the impact of the global financial crisis on human resource management (HRM) in multinational companies (MNCs) in Ireland. It focuses on four key areas of BR, namely staffing, pay and ...

This study investigates the process of adjustment among adult learners by focusing on their own perceptions as they make the transition to higher education in an Irish setting, in order to gain a richer understanding about ...

Thefts and robberies may be traumatizing experiences for employees. The aim of this
study is to explore to what extent experiencing robberies and/or thefts at work affect
workers’ mental health, coping-self-efficacy, ...

A series of papers showing that measures of general cognitive ability predicted performance
on the job and in training and that measures of specific cognitive abilities rarely made an incremental
contribution to prediction ...

The literature on proactivity has focused primarily on its positive performance outcomes. However, the effects of proactive behavior on employees' well-being are relatively unknown. We theorize that when an individuals' ...

In the context of burgeoning research on multinational corporations (MNCs) this paper addresses the issue of the representativeness of databases of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Ireland. It identifies some important ...

Humanism has long been considered a cherished worldview underpinning human resource development.
As such it occupies a privileged status within the field, and in the main, its central tenets have gone
unchallenged, despite ...

Gunnigle, Patrick; McGuine, David(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2001)

The encouragement of foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a key plank of
industrial policy in Ireland. This paper considers the impact of labour issues on the decision of US multinational corporations (MNCs) to ...